American Quotes
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America Quotes
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Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself
William Dean Howells
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One ever feels his twoness-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.
Stewart L. Udall
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The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, courageous, and manly only through compliance.
Stanley Milgram
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In this remarkable time for the world, I refuse to believe it`s time to stop believing in the possibilities of our remarkable country. I refuse to accept the downsizing of the American Dream. I refuse to bet against American entrepreneurial spirit and Ame...
Senator John Kerry
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In this remarkable time for the world, I refuse to believe it`s time to stop believing in the possibilities of our remarkable country. I refuse to accept the downsizing of the American Dream. I refuse to bet against American entrepreneurial spirit and Ame...
Senator John Kerry
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Our government has a simple task: recognize our nation’s real problems, and address them in a manner that reflects the priorities of the American people. It sounds simple, but it’s not happening today, and I know you’re as frustrated with Washington...
Senator John Kerry
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The world today has a strong democratic core shaped by American ingenuity, sacrifice, and spirit. But on the periphery are many unstable and dangerous places, where terrorists seek to impose a medieval dark age. As we learned so brutally and so personally...
Senator John Kerry
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We can no longer allow America’s dependence on foreign oil to compromise our energy security. Instead, we must invest in inventing new ways to power our cars and our economy. I’ll put my faith in American science and ingenuity any day before I depend ...
Senator John Kerry
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The American people deserve to know that they`re not just watching the administration`s spin on their local newscasts -- they`re paying for it, too.
Senator John Kerry
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Our Founding Fathers would shudder to see how easily forces outside the mainstream now seem to effortlessly push some Senate leaders toward conduct the American people don`t want from their elected leaders: Abusing power. Inserting the government into our...
Senator John Kerry
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The American spirit wears no political label. In service to others and yes, in sacrifice for our country, there are no Republicans; there are no Democrats; there are only Americans.
Senator John Kerry
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We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes
Robert Maynard Hutchins
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No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
Richard M. Nixon
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A Native American grandfather talking to his young grandson tells the boy he has two wolves inside of him struggling with each other. The first is the wolf of peace, love and kindness. The other wolf is fear, greed and hatred. "Which wolf will win, grandf...
Native American Proverb
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We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.
Tony Blair
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The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.
Herman Feifel
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Ignorance, inertia and indifference are alive and well in America`s newspapers. Minority still equals inferiority in the minds of many American editors and publishers.
Loren Ghiglione
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I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian.
John G. Diefenbaker
Subject: Politics QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
Jim Bishop
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I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.
Henry Louis Mencken
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No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
Herbert Hoover
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
Bill Lovejoy
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
Bill Lovejoy
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Were the radical democratic impulses of the American Revolution still driving US politics, it would be difficult to imagine corporatization of the kind witnessed today. But that impulse has weakened, and the
Ben Manski
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I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
Andy Gates
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The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming too many calories is like saying that the only cause of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party.
Adelle Davis
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The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
Henry David Thoreau
